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Vermont issued the investor alert after a 74-year-old man lost his life savings of over $340,000 in a crypto fraud orchestrated over Instagram and Telegram. The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) — the United States state of Vermont’s financial regulatory agency — warned citizens against rising crypto investment frauds perpetrated over popular social media sites. On June 25, 74-year-old Naum Lantsman lost his life savings of $340,000 to a crypto scam orchestrated over Instagram and Telegram. The DFR referenced the incident as it emphasized “the need for Vermonters to exercise extreme caution and vigilance when using or investing in cryptocurrency.” A snippet of Vermont’s investor alert against crypto scams. Source: dfr.vermont.gov Instagram has been rated as the top platform connected to crypto fraud by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is also true for Lantsman. His initial contact with the crypto scammer happened over Instagram, wherein he came across a post fr...

Epic Games is steaming ahead with plans to list NFT games on its store, while the second 3AC NFT auction on Sothesby's is slated to take place this month. The Pixel Penguin alleged ‘charity project rug’ Nonfungible-token (NFT) project Pixel Penguin has caused a stir this week in what a blockchain investigator ZachXBT has alleged is a “charity project rug.” The project quietly launched in February, but drew a lot of attention on May 31 following a Twitter thread from Web3 influencer Andrew Wang. I woke up today to see one of my friends trending on twitter, @Hopeexist1. she made a collection to help herself battle cancer and some awesome web3 people spotlighted her today, so i'd like to add to it pic.twitter.com/Fr5Mcu26eR — andrew wang (@andr3w) May 30, 2023 Wang claimed his friend Sarah, known as Hopeexist1 online, was the creator of Pixel Penguins, and noted that she had “made a collection to help herself battle cancer.” At a $13 mint price, Wang claimed that 20% of the p...

NatWest’s head of fraud protection emphasized the importance of self-custody in crypto amid the bank imposing new crypto restrictions. NatWest, a retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom, is taking measures to protect customers from potential crypto losses amid Bitcoin (BTC) hitting multi-month highs. On March 14, NatWest introduced major restrictions on payments to cryptocurrency exchanges, imposing daily and monthly caps for such transactions. According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, NatWest has set a 1,000 British pounds ($1,216) limit for daily transactions involving crypto exchanges. The bank has also imposed a 30-day payment limit of 5,000 GBP ($6,080). The latest restrictions by NatWest aim to help protect customers from losing “life changing sums of money,” the bank said, adding that crypto investments are risky due to a significant amount of scams in the industry. “We have seen an increase in the number of Scams using crypto currency exchange s and we ...